Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace

Founded 1972

PO Box 363 Geneseo NY 14454 <www.gvcp.org>

“Human Race Not Arms Race”

July 11, 2006

Dear GVCP Member:

Distribute free Bumper StickersSaturday, July 29th, 12:00 Noon – 6:00 PM, Geneseo Bus Garage, South St. (Rte. 20A) Geneseo.  Hank Stone will again provide bumper stickers, which we can distribute free of charge.  Most people work two-hour shifts.  Please send Hank an e-mail to tell him when you can be there. <hstone@rochester.rr.com>

NEXT GVCP MEETING and ACTION: MONDAY, AUGUST 7th, 5:30 PM  POTLUCK DINNER, 2290 ANDERSON ROAD, LINWOOD.  [Anderson Road runs west off Rt. 36, one road south of Rt. 20.  2290 is 1.7 mi west of Rt. 36.  Mailbox on right, house on left.]  7:30 PM, VIGIL IN MEMORY OF HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI BOMBING. AVON TRAFFIC CIRCLE, RTS. 5&20.  NOTE MONDAY DATE!*NOTE MONDAY DATE!*

JOIN THE WEEKLY SATURDAY MORNING VIGIL FOR PEACE!  10:30–11:30 AM in Honeoye, Richmond Memorial Park, Route 20A.  (Not Honeoye Falls!)  [Judi Taylor 585-229-4963 <jsalsburg@monroecc.edu>] (Sponsored by Honeoye Concerned Citizens.)

THIS MONTH’S LETTER: OPPOSE THE NOMINATION OF A MAN WHO BELIEVES IN TORTURE.  President Bush has nominated the Defense Department general counsel—William Haynes—to a position on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.  Haynes was part of the team that developed the Administration’s justification for the use of torture.  This nomination provides an opportunity for the Senate to question the Administration's use of brutal interrogation techniques and the detention conditions that are conducive to those techniques.  All acts of torture are morally indefensible.  Torture violates human dignity, and is contrary to the U.S. Constitution, U.S. statutes, and U.S. treaty obligations, including the Geneva Conventions and the Convention Against Torture and Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment or Punishment.  Senator Schumer is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.  He’s in a position to ask Mr. Haynes the hard questions about his role in supporting the use of torture by U.S. personnel.  [Condensed from information provided by the Friends Committee on National Legislation.]

Write to Senator Schumer and tell him to oppose this nomination and to bring the issue of the U.S. use of torture out into the open. 

Hon. Charles Schumer

United States Senate

Washington DC. 20510 

Ph 202-224-6542  Fax 202-228-3027

To send the Senator an e-mail, go to his website and click on “Contact the Senator.”

Peace,

GVCP is proud to be affiliated with Peace Action New York State